Ever-growing Top Gear empire expands to China

Top Gear isn't just a TV show, it's a rapidly-expanding nation-state, a united gearhead kingdom with territories in Australia, Korea, Russia, the United States, and most recently, France. Add one more country to that list: Top Gear China, which debuted just a few weeks ago with visuals and layout that will be eerily familiar to anyone who's channel-surfed past the BBC in the past decade.

Top Gear China packs everything you'd expect from the brand: The nineties-sounding Allman Brothers cover as lead-in music, the host silhouette opening sequence, the improbable races, and of course, the crashes. It precisely follows the Top Gear formula–just with unfamiliar hosts speaking a language previously unheard in the Top Gear empire.